I need to access simultaniously multiple instances of a web services with the following Url. The web services is hosted in IIS and has SSL enabled. https://services.mysite.com/data/data.asmx Usually, when we do this process manually, we go one by one and update the Windows host file (c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) like this : ...
if I do this: curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/xml' -d '<person>...</person>' 'http://0.0.0.0:3000/people/12?_method=PUT' I get "Only get, put, and delete requests are allowed." Why? Rails 2.3.2 ...
I am sure it already exists somewhere, just can't find it. ...
I have a J2ME app running on my mobile phone(client), I would like to open an HTTP connection with the server and keep polling for updated information on the server. Every poll performed will use up GPRS bytes and would turn out expensive in the long run, as GPRS billing is based on packets sent and received. Is there a byte efficien...
I would like to get the name of the form used to post parameters from a Java HTTPServletRequest object. Is this possible. I don't see any method that looks like it will return it to me. ...
I would like to open multiple download dialog boxes after the user clicks on a link. Essentially what I am trying to do is allow the user to download multiple files. I don't want to zip up the files and deliver one zipped file because that would require a lot of server resources given that some of the files are some what large. My gues...
How do I make an HTTP GET request with parameters in Ruby? It's easy to do when you're POSTing: require 'net/http' require 'uri' HTTP.post_form URI.parse('http://www.example.com/search.cgi'), { "q" => "ruby", "max" => "50" } But I see now way of passing GET parameters as a hash using net/http. ...
I've built a ASP.NET webforms site for a customer, and lately the customer has been experiencing a lot of "Not implemented" error messages, while using the site. Apparantly "Not implemented" is english for HTTP 501 error code, as explained here: http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E501.html The browser used is Internet Explorer 7 with no...
Possible Duplicates: How should I choose between GET and POST methods in HTML forms? When do you use POST and when do you use GET? Obviously, you should. But apart from doing so to fulfil the HTTP protocol, are there any reasons to do so? Less overhead? Some kind of security thing? ...
I am attempting to implement an HTTP tunnel using similar techniques to those employed by web browsers to simulate a full-duplex connection, in Java using the Netty framework. I wish to implement this in such a way that it will work in the presence of real world HTTP proxies. I am attempting to do this without using a servlet container, ...
Hi all! How can i read http stream with HTML page in page's encoding? Here is a code fragment i use to get the http stream. InputStreamReader has the encoding optional argument, but i have no ideas about the way to obtain it. URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); InputStream is = conn.getInputStream(); BufferedReader d = new Buffer...
If you sign up for the RIM developer alliance program, you have the special BIS-B connection type available to your Blackberry applications. Is this connection type more available, stable, and reliable than the other methods? We're connecting to web APIs, if that makes any difference. Getting the other methods (Direct TCP through APN ...
I have a php script PayPal eStores/dl_paycart but it has PayPal eStores "settings.php" Security Bypass Vulnerability I would like to know if I can prevent direct access to a php include file. Would this help? defined( '_paycart' ) or die( 'Access to this directory is not permitted' ); Thank you ...
It is common knowledge now to combine stylesheets and scripts in effort to reduce HTTP Requests. I have 2 questions: How expensive are they, really? When is a request too big it should be split? I cannot find the answers to these two questions in all online readings I did, such as Yahoo! Best Practices which states a number of times...
Firebug shows not only the time it takes for individual requests, but splits them into phases. Most of the time spent on getting small files (~20KB) is spent waiting for the response (at least according to Firebug). On stackoverflow, for instance, the wait for response on / takes 255 ms, transfer 42ms. On other sites I have seen figures...
How do I use PHP to check whether a folder is password protected or not? I am using a PHP script that check for return codes 401 and 403 but when it runs into a folder that is password protected it recognizes that its a 403 but does not allow the popup box for username and password to display? How do I detect that the folder is password ...
Hi, I'm interested in writing a short python script which uploads a short binary file (.wav/.raw audio) via a POST request to a remote server. I've done this with pycurl, which makes it very simple and results in a concise script; unfortunately it also requires that the end user have pycurl installed, which I can't rely on. I've al...
I would like to retrieve the cookies stored in the winhttp session cache based upon a specific host and path that I am about to send a request to. I want to retrieve those cookies before I send the request, so I don't have the request handle yet, all I have is the session and connection handles and of course the path and host I'm going t...
We have written a restful service using WCF and are now trying to write FitNesse tests to verify the behaviour of this service. One test is that a 404 status code is returned if a resource can not be found. The problem is that we can not find a mechanism for consuming the service that allows us to get the status code of the incomming r...
I have some web services that I am writing and I am trying to be as RESTful as possible. I am hosting these web services using a HTTPHandler running inside of IIS/ASP.NET/SharePoint. Most of my services expect a HTTP GET. I have two of these that are simply returning some data (i.e., a query) and will be Idempotent, but the parameters...